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[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Sep 4, joegum did say:

> Oops....  I guess I wasn't clear.  I  Xandros, my usb scanner was
> detected, but not supported by sane.  In FC2, it's not detected.   
> Thank you for the link.  I'm going to follow-up on your suggestion as
> well as the other suggestions I've been getting.  Even if I can't get
> the scanner running, I'm no worse off than under Xandros.
> 
> I'll say this, too.  I really don't think newbie should be intimidated
> by Fedora.  It's a very usable and functional OS with world class
> support from this forum.    

Not detected?... Did you try this as root? Do you have the right sane
backend configured?

With FC2 there is a known problem that stops non-root users from getting
the right permissions on the usb bus. There have been several good
explanations (check the archives) but in my case (once I found out how
to configure sane (including getting a required file from the scanners
windows driver disk) [I'm using a cheap memorex scanner] I still had to
fix the bus permission settings before it would work for a non-root user.

I had to poke around to find that my mount point was /proc/bus/usb/001/002
(yours might be different) Then I had to (with root permissions) execute:
"chmod 666 /proc/bus/usb/001/002" before kooka would detect the scanner
for a normal user accounts.

The annoying thing is that I have to do this again after every reboot.
I sure hope they fix that for FC3. Because remembering to run the
/root/bin/fixscan script I put that chmod command in, BEFORE starting kooka
is a small pain. But it's much better than having to boot windows to use
the scanner...


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